| Cor V.i.50 | [Menenius to Sicinius, of Coriolanus] to bite his lip / And hum at good Cominius much unhearts me |
| Cor V.iv.21 | [Menenius to Sicinius, of Coriolanus] his hum is a battery |
| Mac III.vi.42 | [Lord to Lennox] The cloudy messenger turns me his back / And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer' |
| TC I.iii.165 | [Ulysses to all, of Achilles instructing Patroclus how to impersonate Nestor] hum, and stroke thy beard |